FIFTH GRADE NEWS
All fundraisers are due on November 20th! For more information, see the school website! Thanksgiving holidays: November 25-29
ELA NEWS
We will continue reading our new novel Qwerty Stevens: Back in Time with Thomas Edison. Classes will continue studying grammar and writing invention essays.
MATH NEWS
We will be looking at algebraic equations and functions.
SOCIAL STUDIES NEWS
We will have a test this week covering our inventors and their inventions. Be sure to study your inventor trading cards and song lyrics!
SPELLING
1. knowledge
2. dishonest
3. enough
4. restaurant
5. rhyme
6. -age: condition
7. -ate: to cause
8. -tion: state of
9. -ous: full of
10.-ual: relating to
11. damage
12. eliminate
13. infection
14. famous
15. continual
Quote
I haven't failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that don't work. ~ Thomas Edison
Monday, November 16, 2009
Thursday, November 12, 2009
Field Trip
On Tuesday, we went on a field trip to Clemson University to see a play at the Brooks Center about Jackie Robinson. Afterward, we went to tour the athletic facilities and learn about how to be a TIGER! Here are some pictures from our fun day. Students, comment on what you enjoyed and what you learned.
Say Thanks!
On Wednesday, we wrote thank you cards to soldiers that are currently serving in Iraq. Xerox has a great program that allows anyone to choose a card that was created by a kid and write a thank you to a soldier currently serving overseas. A quick thank you means so much more than we will never know. We owe it to our veterans who serve and protect our country. Here is the link so you can write one too! www.letssaythanks.com
Saturday, November 7, 2009
Inventions- Try Again
Here is our new song: Inventions- Try Again
Written by Robin Bracken
Calhoun Academy of the Arts
Anderson, SC
Sing to: Try Again by Aaliyah
*Start as soon as music begins*
It may take a long time, long time
Inventions take hard work and commitment
Keep work’n, Keep work’n
Keep work’n, Keep work’n
Keep work’n, Keep work’n
Brainstorm
Make a plan
Change your plans
Talk about it
Try different things
Keep an open mind…
Be a problem solver
Discover, It all goes back to the late 1800’s
United States
Is changing from
Farm work
To factories
Industrial Revolution
Production of
Manufactured goods
Not so much
Trade and agriculture
But land and labor
and capital
and technology
the new ideas
and how to use
the equipment to do it
Chorus:
If at first you don’t succeed
Then dust yourself off and try again
Dust yourself off and try again, try again
If at first you don’t succeed
Dust yourself off and try again,
You can dust it off and try again, try again and again
Inventions helped
Industrial growth
The telegraph
Samuel Morse
Using Morse Code
To communicate
Then the telephone
Alexander Graham Bell
Communicate 1876
With the telephone
Than the telegraph
It’s easier and quicker
We’re on a move
It’s economic growth
Chorus:
If at first you don’t succeed
Then dust yourself off and try again
Dust yourself off and try again, try again
If at first you don’t succeed
Dust yourself off and try again,
You can dust it off and try again, try again and again
Bridge:
Thomas Edison is a famous inventor
Incandescent light bulb 1879
Huh? Huh? Huh? Huh?
Electricity! Lighting all the factories
Safer than the kerosene
Now we have a brighter day
Oh! Oh! Oh! Oh!
Chorus:
If at first you don’t succeed
Then dust yourself off and try again
Dust yourself off and try again, try again
If at first you don’t succeed
Dust yourself off and try again,
You can dust it off and try again, try again and again
Speak this part:
The Wright Brothers
Orville and Wilbur
Started the aircraft industry
With their experiments in manned flight
1st motorized flight flew for 12 seconds
in Kitty Hawk, N.C. in 1903
You see Inventors and scientists contributed to the Industrial Revolution in the United States and helped the US to become a leading industrial power in the world.
Thank you for not giving up!
Chorus:
If at first you don’t succeed
Then dust yourself off and try again
Dust yourself off and try again, try again
If at first you don’t succeed
Dust yourself off and try again,
You can dust it off and try again, try again
If at first you don’t succeed
Then dust yourself off and try again
Dust yourself off and try again, try again
If at first you don’t succeed
Dust yourself off and try again,
You can dust it off and try again, try again and again
It may take a long time, long time
Inventions take hard work and commitment
Keep work’n, Keep work’n
Keep work’n, Keep work’n
Keep work’n, Keep work’n
Brainstorm
Make a plan
Change your plans
Talk about it
Try different things
Keep an open mind…
Be a problem solver
Discover, It all goes back to the late 1800’s
It may take a long time, long time
Inventions take hard work and commitment
Keep work’n, Keep work’n
Keep work’n, Keep work’n
Keep work’n, Keep work’n
Brainstorm
Make a plan
Change your plans
Talk about it
Try different things
Keep an open mind…
Be a problem solver
Discover, It all goes back to the late 1800’s
Chorus:
If at first you don’t succeed
Then dust yourself off and try again
Dust yourself off and try again, try again
If at first you don’t succeed
Dust yourself off and try again,
You can dust it off and try again, try again and again
Here is a link to the instrumental!
When the screen comes up, the mp3 should pop up. Either open it or save it in your media player.
If your download does not begin after approximately 5 seconds click where it says, "Click direct link."
Written by Robin Bracken
Calhoun Academy of the Arts
Anderson, SC
Sing to: Try Again by Aaliyah
*Start as soon as music begins*
It may take a long time, long time
Inventions take hard work and commitment
Keep work’n, Keep work’n
Keep work’n, Keep work’n
Keep work’n, Keep work’n
Brainstorm
Make a plan
Change your plans
Talk about it
Try different things
Keep an open mind…
Be a problem solver
Discover, It all goes back to the late 1800’s
United States
Is changing from
Farm work
To factories
Industrial Revolution
Production of
Manufactured goods
Not so much
Trade and agriculture
But land and labor
and capital
and technology
the new ideas
and how to use
the equipment to do it
Chorus:
If at first you don’t succeed
Then dust yourself off and try again
Dust yourself off and try again, try again
If at first you don’t succeed
Dust yourself off and try again,
You can dust it off and try again, try again and again
Inventions helped
Industrial growth
The telegraph
Samuel Morse
Using Morse Code
To communicate
Then the telephone
Alexander Graham Bell
Communicate 1876
With the telephone
Than the telegraph
It’s easier and quicker
We’re on a move
It’s economic growth
Chorus:
If at first you don’t succeed
Then dust yourself off and try again
Dust yourself off and try again, try again
If at first you don’t succeed
Dust yourself off and try again,
You can dust it off and try again, try again and again
Bridge:
Thomas Edison is a famous inventor
Incandescent light bulb 1879
Huh? Huh? Huh? Huh?
Electricity! Lighting all the factories
Safer than the kerosene
Now we have a brighter day
Oh! Oh! Oh! Oh!
Chorus:
If at first you don’t succeed
Then dust yourself off and try again
Dust yourself off and try again, try again
If at first you don’t succeed
Dust yourself off and try again,
You can dust it off and try again, try again and again
Speak this part:
The Wright Brothers
Orville and Wilbur
Started the aircraft industry
With their experiments in manned flight
1st motorized flight flew for 12 seconds
in Kitty Hawk, N.C. in 1903
You see Inventors and scientists contributed to the Industrial Revolution in the United States and helped the US to become a leading industrial power in the world.
Thank you for not giving up!
Chorus:
If at first you don’t succeed
Then dust yourself off and try again
Dust yourself off and try again, try again
If at first you don’t succeed
Dust yourself off and try again,
You can dust it off and try again, try again
If at first you don’t succeed
Then dust yourself off and try again
Dust yourself off and try again, try again
If at first you don’t succeed
Dust yourself off and try again,
You can dust it off and try again, try again and again
It may take a long time, long time
Inventions take hard work and commitment
Keep work’n, Keep work’n
Keep work’n, Keep work’n
Keep work’n, Keep work’n
Brainstorm
Make a plan
Change your plans
Talk about it
Try different things
Keep an open mind…
Be a problem solver
Discover, It all goes back to the late 1800’s
It may take a long time, long time
Inventions take hard work and commitment
Keep work’n, Keep work’n
Keep work’n, Keep work’n
Keep work’n, Keep work’n
Brainstorm
Make a plan
Change your plans
Talk about it
Try different things
Keep an open mind…
Be a problem solver
Discover, It all goes back to the late 1800’s
Chorus:
If at first you don’t succeed
Then dust yourself off and try again
Dust yourself off and try again, try again
If at first you don’t succeed
Dust yourself off and try again,
You can dust it off and try again, try again and again
Here is a link to the instrumental!
When the screen comes up, the mp3 should pop up. Either open it or save it in your media player.
If your download does not begin after approximately 5 seconds click where it says, "Click direct link."
Assignment Sheet Nov. 9-13
FIFTH GRADE NEWS
Cookbook orders are due THIS Friday, November 13th!
All other fundraisers are due on November 20th! For more information, see the school website!
ELA NEWS
We will continue reading our new novel Qwerty Stevens: Back in Time with Thomas Edison. Classes will continue studying grammar and writing multi-paragraph essays.
MATH NEWS
We'll be beginning our unit on Algebra. We will be learning about patterns, tables, and graphs.
SCIENCE NEWS
We'll be exploring motion graphs this week.
SOCIAL STUDIES NEWS
We will continue our study of inventors and their inventions.
SPELLING
1. laugh
2. answer
3. separate
4. wrong
5. persuade
6. -age: condition
7. -ate: to cause
8. -ation: state of
9. -ous: full of
10.-ual: relating to
11. wreckage
12. discriminate
13. congratulations
14. wondrous
15. factual
Quote
The greatest mistake a man can ever make is to be afraid of making one.
~Elbert Hubbard
Cookbook orders are due THIS Friday, November 13th!
All other fundraisers are due on November 20th! For more information, see the school website!
ELA NEWS
We will continue reading our new novel Qwerty Stevens: Back in Time with Thomas Edison. Classes will continue studying grammar and writing multi-paragraph essays.
MATH NEWS
We'll be beginning our unit on Algebra. We will be learning about patterns, tables, and graphs.
SCIENCE NEWS
We'll be exploring motion graphs this week.
SOCIAL STUDIES NEWS
We will continue our study of inventors and their inventions.
SPELLING
1. laugh
2. answer
3. separate
4. wrong
5. persuade
6. -age: condition
7. -ate: to cause
8. -ation: state of
9. -ous: full of
10.-ual: relating to
11. wreckage
12. discriminate
13. congratulations
14. wondrous
15. factual
Quote
The greatest mistake a man can ever make is to be afraid of making one.
~Elbert Hubbard
Thursday, November 5, 2009
Barrier Island Update
Barrier Island Update
1. November Payment of $40.00 is due Friday, Nov. 6th
2. Cookbook Order due: Friday, Nov. 13th
3. Personalized Items Fundraiser due: Friday, Nov. 20th
4. December Payment of $40.00 is due Friday, Dec. 4th
5. January Payment of $40.00 is due Monday, January 4th.
1. November Payment of $40.00 is due Friday, Nov. 6th
2. Cookbook Order due: Friday, Nov. 13th
3. Personalized Items Fundraiser due: Friday, Nov. 20th
4. December Payment of $40.00 is due Friday, Dec. 4th
5. January Payment of $40.00 is due Monday, January 4th.
Please turn in YELLOW medical forms ASAP!
For more information about Barrier Island, please visit: http://www.stchristopher.org/index.php?BI
Monday, November 2, 2009
Great American Teachers' Club "Friends"
At the RCA conference last week, I met some wonderful educators that I "talk" to every week through the webcast offered by Ron Clark and Kim Bearden. I just wanted to post the pictures of us after we got to jump on the trampoline!
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